Tools
Tools that have to do with Social Media research and verification.
Final set of public project reports (Volume 1)
May 5, 2017 | Jochen Spangenberg
The REVEAL project formally ended on 31 December 2016. Currently, we are wrapping up our activities. This includes making available the final set of public project deliverables (project reports, including code and all sorts of other information about project work). The first set is now available.
Journalist Decision Support System (JDSS)
February 2, 2017 | Stuart Middleton
The Journalist Decision Support System is a free scalable Twitter analytics platform allowing journalists to crawl Twitter for posts and find user generated content (UGC) relevant to verification tasks. Up to 19 journalists can use JDSS simultaneously, each interactively browsing … Read More
REVEAL Results Vol. 6: Influence & Search
January 16, 2017 | Jochen Spangenberg
Back after the break: here’s Vol. 5 in our series about REVEAL results. In it, Nokia Bell Labs, France, portray what they have been working on – namely influencers and search.
REVEAL Results Vol. 5: Topic modelling and more
January 11, 2017 | Jochen Spangenberg
Vol. 5 in our series about REVEAL results is out. Here, the University of Koblenz outline what they have been up to over the past years. This ranges from topic modelling to user role analysis.
REVEAL Results Vol. 3: Geoparsing and Verification Decision Support
December 20, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
In Volume 3 of our REVEAL Results series, we report about the work of IT Innovation. IT Inno, in short, were primarily active in geolocation work and developed the so-called “Journalist Decision Support System (JDSS).” Find out more in the article below.
REVEAL Results Vol. 2: research outcomes of NCSR’D
December 19, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
Here’s the next article (Vol. 2) in our series about REVEAL results. In what follows NCSR’D-IIT (the National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos” – Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Athens) provide information about what they have achieved in the project. The focus of NCSR’D work was on community issues, stylometry and relation extraction.
REVEAL Results Vol 1: Verification tools, knowledge and code
December 16, 2016 | Jochen Spangenberg
In the series “REVEAL Results” we provide information about REVEAL outcomes and achievements. To kick off, we list a number of verification tools, technologies and services that were developed by project partner CERTH. You can trial them out yourself and access the code, if available.
Pants on fire: content verification tools and other ways to deal with the fake news problem
December 13, 2016 | Aleksandra Kuczerawy
The implications of the filter bubble are manifold and people in the field have been talking about the phenomenon for a while. Yet, this is the first time that a broad audience became aware that something unusual is happening. Recent events, such as Brexit and the US elections, indicate that filter bubbles can be particularly worrisome as they amplify misinformation, or what became the latest ‘hot topic’ – the fake news. It is now up to those concerned to decide how to respond. Finding a right solution, however, is not an easy task.